Cool cool, still at some point you cannot cool that shit anymore. This is true for any form of technology, to be honest, but I’d rather have a burning solar panel, than a runaway nuclear reaction.
Nuclear plants are better than coal or gas, but. They are far outperformed by solar/wind plus batteries. We haven’t even begun tapping into the full potential of this form of power generation and already nuclear is not financially viable anymore. Your point with coating deserts in Solar is obviously valid, but we have soo much underutilized / stupidly utilized land, that can be filled with solar and batteries.
Yes they require minerals that need to be mined, but so does a nuclear reactor which then consumes mined and processed uranium, while in the stuff thats built into a solar cell is needed once and then generates power for free for decades.
Imo this is the way we need to go, given that its not only more environmentally friend but also sooo fucking cheap, that anything else doesn’t even begin to make sense. But given the way the world works, we will build coal/gas/nuclear plants that need to be subsidized heavily and then disassembled using public funds, like we’re doing in Germany.
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